Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism

This thesis focuses on the fundamental problem of characterising partially coherent beams.

Presenting topics that have not previously been contained in a single volume, this book offers an up-to-date review of computational methods in electromagnetism, with a focus on recent results in the numerical simulation of real-life electromagnetic problems and on theoretical results that are useful in devising and analyzing approximation algorithms.

This work studies the magnetic behavior of ZnO nanoparticles capped with different organic molecules and showing room-temperature ferromagnetism (RTFM).

This book lays out a new, general theory of light propagation and imaging through Earth's turbulent atmosphere.

Ultrashort laser pulses with durations in the femtosecond range up to a few picoseconds provide a unique method for precise materials processing or medical applications.

This book is a concise introduction to electromagnetics and electromagnetic fields that covers the aspects of most significance for engineering applications by means of a rigorous, analytical treatment.

This book introduces optical soliton control in micro- and nanoring resonator systems.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the art of optical signal processing technologies and devices.

This book is an attempt to bridge the gap between the instrumental principles of multi-dimensional time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) and typical applications of the technique.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the science of nanostructured oxides.

This book is intended as an undergraduate textbook in electrodynamics at basic or advanced level.

This book is an interdisciplinary introduction to optical collapse of laser beams, which is modelled by singular (blow-up) solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation.

This book explores the relaxation dynamics of inner-valence-ionized diatomic molecules on the basis of extreme-ultraviolet pump-probe experiments performed at the free-electron laser (FEL) in Hamburg.

This book present the lecture notes used in two courses that the late Professor Kasra Barkeshli had offered at Sharif University of Technology, namely, Advanced Electromagnetics and Scattering Theory.

This volume presents an in-depth review of experimental and theoretical studies on the newly discovered Fe-based superconductors.

For design purposes one needs to relate the structure of proposed materials to their NLO (nonlinear optical) and other properties, which is a situation where theoretical approaches can be very helpful in providing suggestions for candidate systems that subsequently can be synthesized and studied experimentally.

This book covers the basics, realization and materials for high power laser systems and high power radiation interaction with matter.

Light phenomena have intrigued humankind since prehistory.

Despite more than half a century of theoretical work, the Casimir effect is still not as fully understood as some suppose.

This book provides the latest research on a new alternative form of technology, the magnetocaloric energy conversion.

This text seeks to illuminate, mainly for the electrical power engineers of the future, the topic of large scale solar flux gathering schemes, which arguably represent the major source of renewable power available.

Scientific advances and several technical breakthroughs have led to a remarkable increase in available laser intensities over the past decades.

This volume on Ultrafast Magnetism is a collection of articles presented at the international "e;Ultrafast Magnetization Conference"e; held at the Congress Center in Strasbourg, France, from October 28th to November 1st, 2013.

This thesis presents recent developments in magnetic coupling phenomena of ferrimagnetic rare-earth transition-metal Tb-Fe alloys and coupled systems consisting of ferri-/ferromagnetic heterostructures.

The propagation of light in 'dense media' where dipole-dipole interactions play a role is a fundamental topic that was first studied in the work of Clausius, Mossotti, Lorenz and Lorentz in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) are finding their place in many modern technologies such as electronics (memory or spintronic devices) and medicine (contrast media, electromagnetic thermal therapy) to name just a few examples.

This book deals with the design and analysis of fractal apertures in waveguides, conducting screens and cavities using numerical electromagnetics and field-solvers.

Magnetic impurities in a non-magnetic host metal have been actively explored in condensed matter physics in recent last decades.

The book is devoted to the description of the fundamentals in the area of magnetic resonance.

This textbook originates from a lecture course in laser physics at the Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

This book presents a new system of solar cells.

This book explains how to create opto-electronic systems in a most efficient way, avoiding typical mistakes.

Advances in the synthesis of new materials with often complex, nano-scaled structures require increasingly sophisticated experimental techniques that can probe the electronic states, the atomic magnetic moments and the magnetic microstructures responsible for the properties of these materials.

The book represents a basic support for a master course in electromagnetism oriented to numerical simulation.

This book presents the latest developments in Femtosecond Chemistry and Physics for the study of ultrafast photo-induced molecular processes.

The book presents results of a comprehensive study of various features of eigen electromagnetic waves propagating across the axis of plasma filled metal waveguides with cylindrical geometry.

This thesis provides unique information on the Kerr-lens mode-locking (KLM) technique applied to a thin-disk laser.

The purpose of this CIME summer school was to present current areas of research arising both in the theoretical and applied setting that involve fully nonlinear partial different equations.

An energetic charged particle beam introduced to an rf cavity excites a wakefield therein.

From Aristotle to Schrodinger: The Curiosity of Physics offers a novel introduction to the topics commonly encountered in the first two years of an undergraduate physics course, including classical mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and molecular physics, and astrophysics.

This book grew out of the author's notes from his course on Radiative Processes in High Energy Astrophysics.

Theoretical investigations of atoms and molecules interacting with pulsed or continuous wave lasers up to atomic field strengths on the order of 10^16 W/cm2 are leading to an understanding of many challenging experimental discoveries.

This biography of the famous Soviet physicist Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam (1889-1944), who became a Professor at Moscow State University in 1925, describes his contributions to both physics and technology, as well as discussing the scientific community which formed around him, usually called the Mandelstam school.

The PUILS series delivers up-to-date reviews of progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, a newly emerging interdisciplinary research field spanning atomic and molecular physics, molecular science, and optical science, which has been stimulated by the recent developments in ultrafast laser technologies.

One of the best ways to "e;lift the lid"e; on what is happening inside a given material is to study it using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).

Analogue Gravity Phenomenology is a collection of contributions that cover a vast range of areas in physics, ranging from surface wave propagation in fluids to nonlinear optics.

Hermes Trismegistos: Meister der Magie und WeisheitEntschlüsselung der hermetischen Philosophie und ihrer zeitlosen WeisheitenTauchen Sie ein in die mystische Welt des Hermes Trismegistos, des legendären Weisen, dessen Lehren als Grundstein der esoterischen Philosophie gelten.

«Würde mich jemand fragen, was mich am tiefsten beruhigt, ich antwortete ihm: Schönheit und Stille.

Josua Boesch hat in kontemplativer Präsenz Ikonen und poetische Texte geschaffen – entstanden aus der Stille, verwoben mit den Fragen des Menschseins.